Weakland Signs Walker Recall Petition

Rembert Weakland, the disgraced former archbishop of Milwaukee, wants Scott Walker out of office.

From the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:

So much for separation of church and state.

Milwaukee Archbishop Jerome Listecki has already spoken out on the effort to recall Gov. Scott Walker, telling WITI-TV (Channel 6) that he respects the first-term Republican and opposes the attempt to oust him.

“You have a recall when you have corruption, you have clearly something that's done that's illegal," Listecki said. "If there was something which was morally detrimental to society, I think you do that.

"Otherwise," he continued, "you have an election, you live with an election for four years, and you vote the person out of office.”

How utterly lame to write, "So much for separation of church and state."

Members of the clergy do have the right to vote and sign petitions.

Moreover, Archbishop Listecki "spoke out" on the recall when he was asked about the matter during a WITI interview.

The Journal Sentinel's Dan Bice makes it sound like Archbishop Listecki is campaigning for Walker. That's absolutely false. He gave an honest answer. That has nothing to do with the government infringing on the practice of religion or the government establishment of a religion.

Now comes word that one of Listecki's predecessors has come out in favor of a recall election for Walker, the son of a Baptist minister.

Former Archbishop Rembert Weakland, who stepped down in 2002 at the age of 75, confirmed to No Quarter that he signed a recall petition on Nov. 22 but declined further comment.

"I'll just leave it at that," he said last week as he left a daytime performance of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra. He lists a Milwaukee apartment as his address on the recall petition.

Weakland resigned as archbishop amid revelations that he had used church money to pay a $450,000 settlement to a man with whom he had had a relationship years earlier.

Weakland signed the petition.

Of course, he did. He's a Leftist, among other things.

In his June 2008 deposition, Weakland said some appalling things, chilling, creepy things.

Anyway, Weakland, the victimizer, agrees with the anti-Scott Walker proponents.

I'm not surprised at all.



"We all considered sexual abuse of minors as a moral evil, but had no understanding of its criminal nature."

--REMBERT WEAKLAND